Subgenre Sampler
Female-centric: 796 Films to Buy & Rent
Girls Can't Swim (Les filles ne savent pas nager) (2000)
- Dir. Anne-Sophie Birot
Feat. Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx, Pascale Bussieres…
- Moody French coming–of–age drama about two girls, one who lives in the coastal town in Brittany, the other from the city.
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Life-Size (2000)
- Dir. Mark Rosman
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Tyra Banks, Jere Burns
- Lindsay Lohan plays a withdrawn tomboy who attempts to cope with her mother's death by resurrecting her with a magic spell, only the plan backfires…
Lilith Fair (2000)
- All–woman’s tour from 1997 that sold out around the US that included Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, Jewel and Meredith Brooks.…
Magik and Rose (2000)
- Dir. Vanessa Alexander
Feat. Alison Bruce, Nicola Murphy, Oliver Driver…
- Uplifting comic melodrama set during the Hokitika Wild Food Festival that rises above its familiar story of two women who, in different ways, have…
Me You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (2000)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia
- Set in the arid hinterlands of Brazil, this serio–comic study of rural polyandry has Regina Case (Brazil’s Oprah Winfrey) hitch up three…
Powerpuff Girls, The (TV Series) (2000)
- Spunky super–sisters Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup trade school lessons for fighting crime in this savvy, sugar–coated superhero series…
Woman On Top (2000)
- Dir. Fina Torres
Feat. Penelope Cruz
- English language vehicle for ravishing Spanish star Penelope Cruz, whose magnetism makes up for some of the lulls in the plot of this romantic 'magic…
Wonderland (2000)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Ian Hart, Gina McKee…
- A sobering view of contemporary London life as three sisters, friends and relatives struggle to connect in a stressful urban world. Plot mechanics…
24 Hour Woman (1999)
- Dir. Nancy Savoca
Feat. Rosie Perez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Diego Serrano…
- An incisive, often hilarious film about a very real dichotomy – how does parenthood fit into the life of a modern career woman?
In a…
All About My Mother (1999)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Cecilia Roth
- Almodovar's "celebration of mother and womanhood" has been hailed as something of a departure for the director, though in fact all of his (beloved)…